vscode devcontainer "postCreateCommand": "alias 'll=ls -alF'" - visual-studio-code

I am using a default MS configuration (in Visual Studio Code -> "Remote-Container: Add Development Container Configuration Files...") and added the following to the
.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
"postCreateCommand": "alias ll='ls -alF'"
Using the command manually in the vscode terminal after creation yields the desired ll.
How do I have to specify the "postCreateCommand"-entry to get the alias?

Correct me if I'm wrong. You want to have the ll alias available inside the container.
You can achieve this by adding this line to the Dockerfile:
RUN echo "alias ll='ls -alF'" >> /etc/bash.bashrc
If you want to leave the Dockerfile as is, you can also add it to the postCreateCommand like this:
"postCreateCommand": "echo alias ll=\\'ls -alF\\' >> /etc/bash.bashrc"
This will add the alias directly to the system-wide bashrc file. The alias will be available in all interactive shells started within the container:

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Bun Not Found After Running Installation Script

I have ran the installation script by pasting this code:
$ curl https://bun.sh/install | bash
However, when I try to get the version of bun, it says it could not find it:
$ bun --version
Command 'bun' not found, did you mean:
command 'ben' from deb ben (0.9.0ubuntu2)
command 'bus' from deb atm-tools (1:2.5.1-4)
command 'zun' from deb python3-zunclient (4.0.0-0ubuntu1)
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
I had the same issue running on Windows 10 WSL2 Ubuntu-22.04 with Bun v0.1.5.
The solution (and more detail just in case anyone needs it) below:
The executable for bun is in the directory "/home/username/.bun". You need to add this to your $PATH so that this can be found when typing bun commands such as "bun --help".
The bun setup process does not add this path so you need to do it yourself.
Two ways to do this :
(1) Manual method
Type in the terminal:
export BUN_INSTALL="/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.bun"
export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
Replacing YOUR_USERNAME with your real username (the current username can be found by typing 'whoami' in the terminal).
Note: This process will have to be REPEATED for every new shell you open.
(2) Automatic method
Edit the .bashrc file :
nano ~/.bashrc
at the end of this file add
BUN_INSTALL="/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.bun"
PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
Replacing YOUR_USERNAME with your real username (the current username can be found by typing 'whoami' in the terminal).
(Remember to save your changes with Ctrl-O)
Note: You will NEED TO OPEN A NEW SHELL for this to work OR type 'source ~/.bashrc' to use in the current terminal.
You should now be able to run bun commands in any new shell.
The installation script says a message at the end telling you how to add bun to your PATH manually. Here is that output:
Manually add the directory to your $HOME/.bashrc (or similar)
BUN_INSTALL="/home/sno2/.bun"
PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
I advise you re-run the installation command and copy the environment variables and add them to your PATH.
export BUN_INSTALL="/Users/manendra/.bun"
export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
add these to your .bashrc, .zshrc or you can use export command to use for current session.
Note: Change your username place of (manendra) "/Users/manendra/.bun"
Manually add the directory to ~/.bashrc (or similar):
export BUN_INSTALL="$HOME/.bun"
export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
From the installer, last message is:
To get started, run
exec /bin/zsh
bun --help

How to change the shell used in code runner?

I have nodejs installed and I can access it in my default shell (bash).
The problem is that when I try to run a file it tries to open it with /bin/sh and thus it says /bin/sh: node: command not found
The problem disappears when I set in configuration run in integrated terminal as I have set the default shell for the terminal to bash.
How to change the default shell used in the code runner to bash so that I can run the file?
The only solution I found to your same problem is to make code runner run into the vscode integrated terminal.
My settings.json
"code-runner.executorMapByGlob": {
"*.ts": "ts-node --esm $fullFileName",
},
"code-runner.runInTerminal": true
In my case it stopped happening when opened vs code on bash, in that scenario code runner runs with bash, so probably you should take a look what starts the vs code and how.
If your problem is that sh doesn't have the same path as bash just add to the /etc/profile.d a file with the following code and should work:
if [ -n "${BASH_VERSION}" ]; then
# include ~/.bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "${HOME}/.bashrc" ]; then
. "${HOME}/.bashrc"
fi
fi

WSL Interop PATH customization

I have an Ubuntu-18.04 WSL instance installed and have a large set of scripts installed in it at /home/username/bin/scripts.
I have also updated the $HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.bash_profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile and /etc/environment files to update $PATH to include /home/username/bin/scripts in the path.
*I'm well aware i only usually need it in my $HOME/.bash_profile, lots of places from experimenting
Say I have a script called sampleScript in /home/username/bin/scripts, when i try to run the command:
wsl sampleScript
It gives the error: /bin/bash: sampleScript: command not found
If I open up wsl in interactive mode I can run it just fine, but I would like to be able to expose the script to not be run in interactive mode.
I've tried making an environment variable SPATH='/home/username/bin/scripts' and setting WSLENV=SPATH/p, but it also does not show up if i do wsl echo $PATH.
*I'm doing this all in command line instead of powershell b/c powershell doesn't appear to be able to do wsl echo $PATH at all, it just returns empty
I have also tried: wsl -u username sampleScript; with no luck
Is there a way to customize the PATH for wsl interop mode or am i doing something incorrectly with WSLENV?

Visual Studio Code Terminal cannot find `lesspipe` command

When I want to make some commands in Visual Studio Code terminal, it prints a message like this:
command 'lesspipe' is available in the following places
This also happens with dircolors. If I want to do something with git or sudo or some other command, it won't let me.
The text is in spanish.
command 'lesspipe' is available in the following places
* /bin/lesspipe
* /usr/bin/lesspipe
command not found because <</usr/bin:/bin> is not include in path variable.
I am assuming that you configured Visual Studio Code to use the default shell on Linux:
With that said and based on the error, it seems that there's something in your .bashrc (or .bash_profile) that messed up your PATH environment variable, something that removed /usr/bin and /bin from it. For example, if I put this some invalid commands at the end of my .bashrc:
/usr/bin/commandthatdoesnotexist
When I open a Terminal on VSCode, those errors will display like this:
bash: /usr/bin/commandthatdoesnotexist: No such file or directory
I suggest you check your .bashrc. I don't know exactly what you added to it so I can't reproduce your problem. Check if you modified the PATH environment variable (did you re-define it? did you accidentally exported it incorrectly?). If you did, temporarily remove those changes.
On an actual terminal (outside of VSCode), you can try to do the following:
$ echo $PATH
# Should display something like this:
# /home/gino/bin:/home/gino/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
If PATH is not like that:
$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin
$ sudo vim /etc/environment # or sudo nano or sudo vi, whichever you use
Then edit PATH to look something like this:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"
Then try the terminal on VSCode again. If it's working now, re-check your modifications on .bashrc to see which one is causing the problem.
I would suggest to logout of root
run
$ sudo nano /etc/environment
replace the path by
$ PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr>

VSCode terminal windows - git-bash aliases getting ignored

I've created aliases in c:\Users\user\.bash_profile and in C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile.d\aliases.sh but both configs getting ignored by VSCode integrated terminal, which is configured to use git bash:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
if I open GitBash itself - aliases works fine
how do I force integrated terminal to respect the configs?
You can try adding to the settings:
// The command line arguments to use when on the Windows terminal.
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
"--login", "-i"
],
-i - force the shell to run interactively.
--login - make this shell act as if it had been directly invoked by login. When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.
When invoked as an interactive shell with the name sh, Bash looks for the variable ENV, expands its value if it is defined, and uses the expanded value as the name of a file to read and execute. Since a shell invoked as sh does not attempt to read and execute commands from any other startup files, the --rcfile option has no effect. A non-interactive shell invoked with the name sh does not attempt to read any other startup files.
Read more.
As an alternative you can use the .bashrc file instead of .bash_profile.
The solution using the "--login" and "-i" shell arguments did not work for me. What did work was using the bash "-rcfile" shell argument, like this, in my settings file:
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
"-rcfile",
"c:\Users\\.bash_profile", ],
... where <userid> is my Windows userid and the alias commands are in a file called ".bash_profile" that is located in c:\Users\<userid>
I simply switched to my root user directory c:\Users\user then ran source .bashrc. This did the trick on my machine, hope it helps.
Create .bashrc in c:\Users\username
Add an alias, e.g alias gotossh="cd /c/users/username/.ssh"
In your terminal, run source .bashrc while in c:\Users\username
Confirm that the alias works by running alias
You might not have a .bashrc file in the users folder which is important to note.
Also remember to write the paths correct and don't leave any space between the equals in e.g alias="somecommand"
As of 2020 there is no need to add the shellArgs.